Top Houston Obama donors lead fundraising for pro-Clinton PAC ‘Ready for Hillary’

Fundraising efforts for the pro-Clinton Super PAC “Ready for Hillary” are charging forward with two top Obama donors and Houston trial lawyers, Steve and Amber Mostyn, at the helm.

Ready for Hillary announced the Mostyns, who contributed $3 million to pro-Obama PAC Priority USA in 2012, as founding members of its National Finance Council today. Clinton supporters established the McLean (Va.)-based PAC earlier this year to pave the path for the former Secretary of State’s potential 2016 presidential bid. It now boasts 3,000 grassroots donors and over 150,000 Facebook likes.

“By 2016, if you had Hillary Clinton at the top of the ticket, I think we could move Texas to the battleground column,” Steve Mostyn wrote in a statement.

Mostyn called Ready for Hillary the “best vehicle for donors who want to make Hillary our next President,” citing the organization’s ability to engage voters in social media and act early. He is teaming up with San Francisco’s Susie Tompkins Buell, philanthropist and co-founder of Esprit clothing, in the fundraising effort.

Mostyn’s other notable political contributions have included $1 million to a gun control group headed by former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, as well as $3 million to the campaign of former Texas gubernatorial candidate Bill White, who lost to Rick Perry in 2010.

The Mostyns earned their wealth through their legal practice, which litigates insurance and personal injury cases. Steve Mostyn was the Texas Trial Lawyer Association’s youngest president, described on the firm’s website as a “people’s lawyer.”

Today’s announcement coincided with another victory for the Mostyns’ firm – a longtime legal battle with the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association came to a close today with a $189 million settlement for about 2,400 Galveston County homeowners whose properties were destroyed by Hurricane Ike, which hit Texas in 2008.

The firm also has also reached into the Northeast since Hurricane Sandy devastated the region last October in an attempt to profit on thousands of cases amounting to more than $1 billion in insurance claims.